A final way I tightened up meetings was to discourage people from coming to my office afterward to tell me what they “couldn’t say in the meeting” on account of who was in the room. What kind of leader would I be if I suddenly changed my opinion based on statements from the last person with whom I spoke? When people did come to me after meetings, I explained that because they lacked the guts to speak up, we had just wasted an hour of everyone’s time and would now have to reconvene so that everyone could hear this new input. I only had to do that a couple of times before this baloney stopped.
Winning Now, Winning Later: How Companies Can Succeed in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term. HarperCollins Leadership. 2020. p. 27
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